A patient is referred to OT for splinting. The goal of splinting is to increase ROM that will eventually allow improvement in fine motor coordination and prehension patterns. Which strategy should the OT use to accomplish this goal?

A client with a TBI is attending a work rehabilitation program. The long-term goal is to have the patient resume work at a food processing plant handling the canning process. Overall strength and coordination are good, but the client exhibits occasional angry outbursts with other workers. The OT program should include:

The OT is working with a child who has some behavioral issues and the child's family as well. What are important cultural contextual factors that need to be considered in therapy?

An office worker experienced an injury that resulted in being confined to a wheelchair. When the worker returned to work, an OT was consulted to assess the worker and make recommendations about reasonable accommodations. The OT's recommendations should address:

The OT designing an intervention plan for a 10 y/o with a learning disability. The intervention plan should focus on developing performance skills related to:

A patient presents with morning stiffness, joint inflammation, muscle weakness, and difficulty with community mobility and ADLs. The OTs initial goals should be:

During a treatment session, the OT observes that the patient can flex the affected shoulder through its full ROM in side lying. The OT should progress to activities that places the extremity in:

A patient with peripheral neuropathy has impairment of sensation in bilateral feet and hands. The main focus of treatment should be:

To evaluate the proper fit of a splint given to a patient, the OT should:

The BEST description of the Model of Human Occupation is:

To promote visual tracking for preschooler who has poor tracking skills, which recommendation is the MOST appropriate for the OT to make to the parents for a home program?

A community outing of bowling is planned for a group of elderly patients from a daycare center. Neuromuscular factors that the OT must consider before engaging in the activity are:

An OT in a community center would like to select the best activity to facilitate socialization and to increase several participants' energy level. The BEST choice would be:

An 85 y/o client with normal age-related physical changes will have the MOST cardiovascular stress with which of the following activities?

An elderly client presents with an ulnar nerve injury, for which the OT fabricates a splint. The therapist must take into consideration which of the following goals?

The OT is working in the hospital with an 8 y/o child who has burns over 70% of the body. During the initial acute phase of treatment, the OT's primary objective is to:

The OT is working with a 3rd grade student on handwriting. The OT is asking the child to copy a sentence from the chalkboard to the paper. The OT notices that the child writes down one letter at a time and then looks back to the chalkboard to complete one sentence. The child is MOST likely experiencing difficulty with:

A 7 y/o child with sensory integration dysfunction is working with an OT on the school's playground. The child looks at all of the playground equipment and verbalizes a detailed plan on how to move across the various obstacles. When asked to execute these actions, the child had difficulty making the body do what was conceptualized. The OT needs to address sensory integration dysfunction related to:

A child has difficulty holding a fork during self-feeding because of decreased sensory receptors in the hand. The OT will MOST likely recommend the use of:

When developing a home program for a child with decreased hand and arm strength, the OT will MOST likely suggest that the child is presented with opportunities to:

The OT is working in the school systems with the 18-21 y/o population. The focus of OT is MOST likely to address:

According to Bobath, the BEST way to regulate increased flexor tone of the upper extremity is by:

When instructing a hemiplegic patient on dressing techniques, it is very important that the patient is instructed in which of the following:

When facilitating movement in a patient who has sustained a CVA you use the technique of tapping the wrist extensors. This would come from:

A stand pivot transfer would be used for a client when the client:

The goal of therapy for a patient is to develop and improve hand coordination and skills. The OT should recommend purposeful activities, such as:

A patient with a head injury demonstrates confusion and constant agitation. The OT intervention should focus on:

Your patient is refusing all groups. You would:

A parent reports that their child sleeps pushed up against the sides of the crib. The parent states that the child pushes hard into one end of the crib. The OT realizes that this child requires treatment that focus on:

An OT in early intervention suggests to a family that their child, who is sensory defensive, would benefit from having the tags cut out of his T-shirts. The term that BEST describes this type of intervention is:

OTs contribute to the goal of inclusion for all children. When children are included, services are provided in a:

EBP is the determination of intervention strategies based on:

Which of following theories / approaches would be MOST associated with intervention emphasizing structure and feedback during performance of hand skills as well as repetition of activities?

Which ADL activity would the OT caution a patient with a recent hip replacement to avoid?